CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) CS0-002 Exam Dumps V9.02

1. An analyst is performing penetration testing and vulnerability assessment activities against a new vehicle automation platform.

Which of the following is MOST likely an attack vector that is being utilized as part of the testing and assessment?

2. An information security analyst observes anomalous behavior on the SCADA devices in a power plant. This behavior results in the industrial generators overheating and destabilizing the power supply.

Which of the following would BEST identify potential indicators of compromise?

3. Which of the following would MOST likely be included in the incident response procedure after a security breach of customer PII?

4. An analyst is working with a network engineer to resolve a vulnerability that was found in a piece of legacy hardware, which is critical to the operation of the organization's production line. The legacy hardware does not have third-party support, and the OEM manufacturer of the controller is no longer in operation. The analyst documents the activities and verifies these actions prevent remote exploitation of the vulnerability.

Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate to remediate the controller?

5. A small electronics company decides to use a contractor to assist with the development of a new FPGA-based device. Several of the development phases will occur off-site at the contractor's labs.

Which of the following is the main concern a security analyst should have with this arrangement?

6. A security analyst is trying to determine if a host is active on a network.

The analyst first attempts the following:

The analyst runs the following command next:

Which of the following would explain the difference in results?

7. A cybersecurity analyst is contributing to a team hunt on an organization's endpoints.

Which of the following should the analyst do FIRST?

8. A security analyst received a SIEM alert regarding high levels of memory consumption for a critical system. After several attempts to remediate the issue, the system went down. A root cause analysis revealed a bad actor forced the application to not reclaim memory. This caused the system to be depleted of resources.

Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

9. Which of the following software security best practices would prevent an attacker from being able to run arbitrary SQL commands within a web application? (Choose two.)

10. A cyber-incident response analyst is investigating a suspected cryptocurrency miner on a company's server.

Which of the following is the FIRST step the analyst should take?

11. An information security analyst is compiling data from a recent penetration test and reviews the following output:

The analyst wants to obtain more information about the web-based services that are running on the target.

Which of the following commands would MOST likely provide the needed information?

12. A compliance officer of a large organization has reviewed the firm's vendor management program but has discovered there are no controls defined to evaluate third-party risk or hardware source authenticity. The compliance officer wants to gain some level of assurance on a recurring basis regarding the implementation of controls by third parties.

Which of the following would BEST satisfy the objectives defined by the compliance officer? (Choose two.)

13. An audit has revealed an organization is utilizing a large number of servers that are running unsupported operating systems.

As part of the management response phase of the audit, which of the following would BEST demonstrate senior management is appropriately aware of and addressing the issue?

14. A security analyst is reviewing packet captures from a system that was compromised. The system was already isolated from the network, but it did have network access for a few hours after being compromised.

When viewing the capture in a packet analyzer, the analyst sees the following:

Which of the following can the analyst conclude?

15. It is important to parameterize queries to prevent:

16. A security analyst reviews the following aggregated output from an Nmap scan and the border firewall ACL:

Which of the following should the analyst reconfigure to BEST reduce organizational risk while maintaining current functionality?

17. During an investigation, a security analyst determines suspicious activity occurred during the night shift over the weekend. Further investigation reveals the activity was initiated from an internal IP going to an external website.

Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate recommendation to prevent the activity from happening in the future?

18. A security analyst has received reports of very slow, intermittent access to a public-facing corporate server.

Suspecting the system may be compromised, the analyst runs the following commands:

Based on the output from the above commands, which of the following should the analyst do NEXT to further the investigation?

19. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to upgrade an organization's security posture by improving proactive activities associated with attacks from internal and external threats.

Which of the following is the MOST proactive tool or technique that feeds incident response capabilities?

20. While planning segmentation for an ICS environment, a security engineer determines IT resources will need access to devices within the ICS environment without compromising security.

To provide the MOST secure access model in this scenario, the jumpbox should be.

21. A development team uses open-source software and follows an Agile methodology with two-week sprints. Last month, the security team filed a bug for an insecure version of a common library. The DevOps team updated the library on the server, and then the security team rescanned the server to verify it was no longer vulnerable. This month, the security team found the same vulnerability on the server.

Which of the following should be done to correct the cause of the vulnerability?

22. A security analyst is reviewing the logs from an internal chat server. The chat.log file is too large to review manually, so the analyst wants to create a shorter log file that only includes lines associated with a user demonstrating anomalous activity.

Below is a snippet of the log:

Which of the following commands would work BEST to achieve the desired result?

23. An analyst is participating in the solution analysis process for a cloud-hosted SIEM platform to centralize log monitoring and alerting capabilities in the SOC.

Which of the following is the BEST approach for supply chain assessment when selecting a vendor?

24. A security technician is testing a solution that will prevent outside entities from spoofing the company's email domain, which is comptia.org. The testing is successful, and the security technician is prepared to fully implement the solution.

Which of the following actions should the technician take to accomplish this task?

25. A security analyst on the threat-hunting team has developed a list of unneeded, benign services that are currently running as part of the standard OS deployment for workstations. The analyst will provide this list to the operations team to create a policy that will automatically disable the services for all workstations in the organization.

Which of the following BEST describes the security analyst's goal?

26. Which of the following roles is ultimately responsible for determining the classification levels assigned to specific data sets?

27. A security analyst suspects a malware infection was caused by a user who downloaded malware after clicking http://<malwaresource>/a.php in a phishing email.

To prevent other computers from being infected by the same malware variation, the analyst should create a rule on the.

28. An information security analyst is reviewing backup data sets as part of a project focused on eliminating archival data sets.

Which of the following should be considered FIRST prior to disposing of the electronic data?

29. A security analyst is evaluating two vulnerability management tools for possible use in an organization. The analyst set up each of the tools according to the respective vendor's instructions and generated a report of vulnerabilities that ran against the same target server.

Tool A reported the following:

Tool B reported the following:

Which of the following BEST describes the method used by each tool? (Choose two.)

30. A security analyst received an alert from the SIEM indicating numerous login attempts from users outside their usual geographic zones, all of which were initiated through the web-based mail server. The logs indicate all domain accounts experienced two login attempts during the same time frame.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?